Losing the label of persistently dangerous
It appears that state education officials are backing away from making a big deal out of labeling schools persistently dangerous, an exercise they have engaged in every July since the No Child Left Behind regulations took effect.
For years, Maryland has been one of the few states that took the labeling seriously. So it ended up at one point having the majority of schools in the nation with a label that was both onerous and embarrasing for schools. After getting a lot of criticism, the state board decided to revisit the policy. But state school superintendent Nancy Grasmick doesn't think there is much point spending a lot of time rewriting a policy when it looks as though the feds are going to axe it anyway during the NCLB reauthorization (whenever it finally happens).
The board had a few minutes of discussion about it today and then moved on to other subjects. So the question still remains, will Grasmick decide to not put out a list this year?
"We think it would be a relief if it didn't have to be such a public event," Grasmick said.
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by accident you wrote "loosing" instead of "losing" unless it was intentional and i just missed it.
Posted by: J | February 24, 2009 8:59 PM
I can ignore the incorrect spelling of embarrassing but it's difficult to ignore the bold "loosing the label of persistently dangerous." It's "lose" not "loose!" For God's sake, this is a blog about education.
Posted by: Educated Reader | February 24, 2009 9:01 PM
Now i feel bad about posting the above. I know Liz knows the difference between "loose" and "lose," lose the exclamation points, Educated Reader. I know People love pointing out the mistake of others and love getting loud about it.
By the way, Educated Reader, major punctuation such as exclamation points and question marks belong outside of quotation marks, unless what you're quoting includes the major punctuation. There are no exclamation points in Liz's post, so kindly remove your exclamation point.
Liz, I promise to comment on the substance matters of your post.
Posted by: J | February 24, 2009 10:17 PM
1) You guys are dorks. Pretty sure we all have made a spelling error once or twice. (And this is coming from an English teacher, so calm down)
2) I doubt anyone would make a big fuss about NCLB being changed into something that works. Keep us posted on this, I'd love a national setup that actually benefited education.
Posted by: Brandon | February 25, 2009 7:05 AM
The label may be embarrassing but doesn't it entitle those schools to some federal cashmoney?
Posted by: Corey | February 25, 2009 8:48 AM